Community Tasting Note
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liber Does not like this wine: 80 points
November 11, 2014 - 11th of 12, perfect fill, opened 40 mins but not decanted - I was put into this by Farr on its release and should have resisted as it represents everything I dislike about Parkerised claret (it was sold following an improbably high Parker score). Always intensely coloured, initially it was a fruit bomb, if a little crude and rustic, the fruit fell away about five years ago leaving not a lot. This bottle was surprisingly attractive on the nose if more redolent of a good Rhone, on the palate it was initially a block of dusty fruit (squashed plums) with some mid palate intensity but no length or purity, after 40 minutes even this disappeared and it became a weighty dusty blob, clearly bettered on night by Chianti La Massa 99 decanted into a half bottle from a week earlier. Life's too short to be bothered with this. At best average (13/20).
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